Nicole Joseph
Acclaimed Writer & Theatre-Maker
Creating fresh, dynamic and high-quality narratives that captivate audiences.
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About Me
My Writing Journey
Nicole is a Bradford-based Writer and Theatre-Maker, she writes women-led stories interested in the sublime, consideration of audiences and exploring marginalised characters and places while playing with genre, where often, the ordinary meets the extraordinary thematically and atmospherically. Her first play, Blessed Spirits, was a Finborough Theatre ETPEP Award Finalist and was selected for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting shortlist (2021). She completed year-long writing attachments with Tamasha Theatre and the Crucible Theatre where she wrote two new plays and was developed with the Royal Exchange Theatre (2021-22) after Blessed Spirits was anonymously selected from their script submission window. She was commissioned for Mixed Monologues by the Crucible Theatre and English Touring Theatre (2023) and delivered writing workshops at the Bronte Parsonages Festival of Women’s Writing (2022-24). She was recently commissioned to write the Crucible Theatre Sheffield's Young Company Production, Urgent! A Timely Play and was awarded an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant to take her playwriting practice to the next stage (2024). Nicole is currently under a commissioned residency with the Bronte Society and in development with a TV broadcaster.
As a Theatre-Maker, Nicole's practice is holistic and spiritual human-centred, while rigorous in exploring theatre in a dynamic and expansive way. She has extensive experience in directing/dramaturgy, facilitation and producing, working with professionals and communities. Nicole directed several short plays for Graeae Theatre’s Crips With Chips new writing showcase presented with Theatre by The Lake and Liverpool Everyman Theatre on their mainstages (2023-24).
She is currently a Dramaturg Mentor on Paines Plough's Tour The Writer programme in partnership with Bradford Producing Hub and Bradford 2025. She was a Creative Associate on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s First Encounters production of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, where she assisted rehearsals in Stratford-Upon-Avon and directed the young ensembles in schools and associate theatres in the northern region of the tour (2024). Nicole has been trained by the Almeida Theatre, as a JMK Trust Mentored Director, through the Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme (2021) and worked as a script-reader for Sheffield Theatres (2022).
Recent Projects
Bronte Commissioned Residency
2024 - 2025Nicole has worked with the Bronte Society Parsonage Museum to develop a series of work based on her experience as a local writer, around the ideas of home, childhood and women's experiences.
She has researched from their rare archives, delivered workshops at the Bronte Festival of Women's Writing on developing children's work ideas and sustaining writing practice, appeared on their podcast ‘Behind the Glass’ sharing a poem inspired by Anne Bronte and is developing an extract of a modern theatre adaptation of Anne’s lesser known but bitingly brilliant The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Nicole is collaborating with Ilkley Playhouse to workshop and showcase the extract.
Urgent! A Timely Play (Sheffield Theatres Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, 2024)
2024University drop-out and house-sharer Jude drifts through life until one day when he accidentally opens a time portal and finds out death is coming for him. A story about friendship, grief, and time.
Nicole collaborated with Sheffield Theatres Young Company, responding to their wide-ranging ambitions to create this fantasy comedy-drama with exciting psychedelic music and design.
VisitProgressing as a playwright: Arts Council England Creative Practice Grant Award
2023 - 2024Nicole was awarded an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant to progress her practice as a playwright to the next level, supported by the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester. She was mentored by a leading Dramaturg, an experienced award-winning writer mentor and dramaturg, explored international and fringe theatre and wrote a new ambitious large-cast and scale play, which was workshopped with support of Sheffield Theatres with their Young Company and local actors, directed by a prominent theatre director.
With additional support from Leeds 2023 Expanding Horizons programme, Nicole was able to visit New York, exploring work of scale and received mentoring from Chief Executive Producer of The Shed theatre.
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